Stefan Matthias Pulst

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Stefan-M. Pulst, MD, Dr med is Professor and Chair of Neurology. His clinical and research interests focus on inherited diseases of the nervous system with an emphasis on spinocerebellar ataxias and Parkinson´s disease. He received his medical school training at Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover (Germany) and at Harvard Medical School, Boston. After beginning neurology residency in Hannover, he moved to Boston and was senior and chief resident in the Longwood Neurology Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston. He then moved to San Francisco and did basic research on brain tumors at the UCSF brain tumor research center and in neurobiology in the Department of Physiology. Prior ro joining the faculty at the U. of Utah, he was Professor of Medicine, Neurology, and Neurobiology at the UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles.